VIDEO: There’s No Way on Earth You’d Launch a Magazine Called ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ in 2009

Rex Hammock interviews Samir 'Mr. Magazine' Husni.

A recent interview Rex Hammock conducted with Samir "Mr. Magazine" Husni at the University of Mississippi. As Rex notes, anytime Husni speaks, there are plenty of headline-worthy soundbites. Here’s one:

"If you are starting a magazine today, there’s no way on earth you are going to call it ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ because they’d think you are starting a magazine about the Atlantic Ocean."

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